George Carlin Quotes

Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

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• I joined the Army at 19 as a soldier and spent about four and a half years with them. Then I broke my back in a freefall parachuting accident and spent a year in rehabilitation back in the U.K.

  

  Bear Grylls
  • Army
  • Year
  • Soldier

• My baby is amazing; even his head smells amazing. His breath, the whole thing, you could eat him! He's a big, beautiful boy. He's great.

  

  Orlando Bloom
  • Great
  • Beautiful
  • Amazing

• You know, it's such an insult to actual martial artists that I say that I do martial arts.

  

  Cam Gigandet
  • Know
  • Insult
  • Martial Arts

• Philip Kitcher thinks that mathematics is surprisingly like empirical science. Few mathematicians would agree; philosophers too, from Socrates on, have held the opposite opinion.

  

  Ian Hacking
  • Science
  • Opinion
  • Mathematics

• I'm not telling you what to do on the Sabbath, and you won't tell me.

  

  Yair Lapid
  • You
  • Me
  • Tell

• I've never been able to relate to apathy. I've always been doing stuff, been in action, making music or working just to get by.

  

  Beck
  • Music
  • Action
  • Doing

• But it's a very universal story and the thing is I was reluctant to answer that question because I don't want people latching on to a particular stereotype.

  

  Parminder Nagra
  • People
  • Want
  • Question

• Dave thought he was bigger than Van Halen the band. So there was this catfight going on for 10 years.

  

  Gary Cherone Van Halen
  • Band
  • Thought
  • Years

• When you write for a comic series, many superheroes have 60 or some years of history that you are coming into.

  

  G. Willow Wilson
  • History
  • You
  • Years

• I came to America to make it my home, and I did.

  

  Yakov Smirnoff
  • Home
  • America
  • I Came

• Sales don't always have anything to do with good or brilliant or original. Sales are about appeal.

  

  M. J. Rose
  • Good
  • Always
  • Sales

• Life is so impermanent that it's not about somebody else or things around me, it's about knowing you are completely alone in this world and being content inside.

  

  K. D. Lang
  • Life
  • World
  • Alone

• Human beings are natural mimickers. The more you're conscious of the other side's posture, mannerisms, and word choices - and the more you subtly reflect those back - the more accurate you'll be at taking their perspective.

  

  Dan Pink
  • Choices
  • Human
  • Perspective

• Why was the amendment, expressly declaring the right of the people to exclude slavery, voted down? Plainly enough now, the adoption of it would have spoiled the niche for the Dred Scott decision.

  

  Abraham Lincoln
  • People
  • Why
  • Decision

• People often ask me, was it hard to play this person or that person? Well, no, not really. Acting is what I do. It's my job.

  

  Samantha Morton
  • People
  • Job
  • Acting

• Acting is an aesthetic career, which is annoying.

  

  Tamsin Egerton
  • Career
  • Acting
  • Aesthetic

• I feel like fashion and music relate to each other in a lot of ways. I always had to be creative: I'm a very creative person. I always liked making stuff. Apart from music, I always liked making clothes. You're able to express yourself.

  

  Yuna
  • Music
  • Fashion
  • Yourself

• We come nearest to the great when we are great in humility.

  

  Rabindranath Tagore
  • Great
  • Humility
  • Come

• When something is truly funny, it's funny all the time.

  

  Cloris Leachman
  • Time
  • Funny

• I do want to be good at what I do, sometimes for a lot of money and sometimes for none.

  

  Katharine Ross
  • Good
  • Money

• We need to be grateful for many things that didn't happen.

  

  Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven

• When a novelist has “something to say,” they mean a message. It has political connotations, or a religious message, or a moral prescription. It means “commitment,” as used by Sartre and other fellow-travelers. They are saying that the writer has a world view, a sort of truth that he wishes to communicate, and that his writing has an ulterior significance. I am against this.

  

  Alain Robbe-Grillet
  • Writer
  • View
  • Significance

• Work is no longer challenging.

  

  John Belushi
  • Work

• Some people see things that are and ask, Why? Some people dream of things that never were and ask, Why not? Some people have to go to work and don't have time for all that.

  

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